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Title Copyright law and the information society in Asia / Christopher Heath and Kung-Chung Liu, editors
Published Oxford ; Portland, OR : Hart, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (xxv, 276 pages)
Series IIC studies ; v. 26
IIC studies ; v. 26.
Contents The expansion of copyright law and its social justification / Reto M. Hilty -- Internet trade, digital worksand parallel imports / Christopher Heath -- The collective exercise of copyrights / Kung Chung Liu -- The law on anti-circumvention and digital rights management / Andy Y. Sun and Haochen Sun -- Copyright contracts, public policy and antitrust / Estelle Derclaye -- Contributory and vicarious liability for copyright infringement / Andy Y. Sun -- Looking forward : contemporary trends of the copyright economics research in the digital era / Wayne Fu
Summary The book takes a look at the six most important current topics arising from copyright law in the information society, and for each topic provides an in-depth introduction that compares the approaches taken in Europe and the US. Each topic is introduced by an expert, and the issues are then analysed in separate country reports representing nine Asian jurisdictions: China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and the Philippines. The six topics are: The Expansion of Copyright Law and its Social Justification: Introduction by Reto Hilty, Max Planck Institute, Munich I
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
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Subject Copyright -- Asia -- Congresses
Copyright -- Southeast Asia -- Congresses
Copyright -- Asia
Copyright -- Europe
Copyright -- United States.
LAW -- Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice.
Copyright
Auteursrecht.
Industriƫle eigendom.
United States
Europe
Asia
Southeast Asia
Aziƫ.
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Congressen (vorm)
Form Electronic book
Author Heath, Christopher.
Liu, Kung-Chung, 1961-
ISBN 9781847312945
1847312942
9781472563835
1472563832